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IMYNHEI BP BY ST. QEORQE zizz CHAPTER VL I (Continued.] i "They told me you were engaged in 1 "A street brawl. I came hurrying up. supposing you had been marked by < secret sympathizers of the False 1 Prophet, known to be in Cairo, only < "to find that they have deceived me." "Not at all, my dear fellow." < "Do you mean to say you have been ' In it?" "1 must plead guilty." ! "They pitched on to you?" I "On the contrary. I think I did the I aggrcssi'*. Never could see a big I A doc set on a small one." ^^"Ob, that's the way the came runs. Is It? Well, did you chaw the big dog think I knocked him out. He's liat cluster over yonder. It's a Season to him I hope, though I must admit the little chap was deuced saucy, and the other didn't give way until forced almost beyond human enk durance." I "^ f^r my part, I'd have let 'em alone. I Bt^ause a man is stuall. It's no reason I he should impose on those who are klarger. The chaps need a lesson to ^eac-h 'em something.'* says the sllMfe king, with a shake of the head, ^^pynheer Joe laughs softly. ^H"Let me complete my confession, my i Bffiend."' he says, with charming frankBess. "Willingly." .. , V "There was another reason why I ! Ithrew myself into the breach and #.>ok p arms against the more pow rful , i Mr. Grimes elevates his fjebrows mikI looks at his companiej in a p H^Wnr way. on account of beauty that took part in this disgraceful affair."' j "What! Was the old villain beating j fcis wife?" ! .-^'Nonsense! The thought of Molly j Tanner spurred'me on to interfere.*' } "Come, no joking! What has she to do with the quarrels of street brawlers?" "You are very obtuse. Mr. Grimes. It was her father who was in the affair." "Oh, a light beams upon nnj." "Glad of it, sir. You see. I couldn't ^ tand by and see a little man like jjeraostnenes lanner oeiug iiui?usst-u i upon. I brushed him aside and told his adversary to fight some one nearer his size. He did so?well, the result ' te yonder." ' "A little man. eh?" ' "Well, he's little when compared with?say you or myself, for instance." "Tanner?oh. yes. of course." with a grin. "And. really, the other man towered gbove him like a giant. I never felt tetter than when I faced him and gave him Lis quietus." ? "Is he down there yet?" 1 # s'nk he's getting over it now. r SeJQPfe.' crowd parts. That's he sit- J ting there, with his hand up to bis head. I reckon he's dazed." Mr. Grimes looks. 1 Then he utters a low whistle. "You've done it, my dear fellow!" f he says, aghast. "Oh, he'll be over it presently: may have a headache to-morrow. But these * knock-out-blows, if properly given, * don't kill." savs Joe, coolly. that," continues Mr. Grimes. E y^Vhnt, then?" * "Well, you see?Deuce take it! Here he comes! Now there will be the s mischief to pay!" Mynheer Joe hears his words, and, turning his head, glances around. There is no difficulty in discovering Just what is meant From the direction of the piazza a figure in white advances hastily. The lights of the piazza flash from the diamonds in her ears and at her neck. It is Molly! Straight she comes to where they are standing, as if in that motley crowd her eyes have fallen upon these two figures first of all, and in them she recognises friends. ' Mynheer Joe fieels a thrill of hon>s*?st pride as it flashes upon him that jthis beauty will soon be thanking him f from her heart for standing up in her dear old governor's place and meeting . the attack of an enraged giant. 1 It is a pleasant sensation that creeps f about bis heart, ror ne reeis uiai ue ; Las done a good action. In these days when a man dashes into a burning house and saves a child at the risk of his own life, he knows he has done a heroic act, though his modesty may prevent him from boasting about It * Molly Tanner reaches them. It ls{ Mynheer Joe 6he sees, and to him appeals. Her looks are startled. He will never forget how lovely she apk Dears when she clasps his arm and. a breathless manner, gasps: ^"Oh, Mynheer Joe, is it true? Has ay dear old governor been hurt? He' -wli always so impetuous?so ready to take offense. Tell me the truth. I ; can stand the worst. Indeed. I can!" ' Her voice is pleading. One would Imagine that he is endeavoring to hold k back something from her that she should know. "Miss Tanner, calm yourself, I beg," he says, wondering how die can explain matters without bringing his 1 awn share of It into notice. 1 i "I am calm. Now tell me all." sht? ' iR JOE. 1 PATHBORNI. j 9999999 ! it bokkxs's Soxr. J ( replies, assuming, with an effort, a repose she Is certainly far from feeling. "There has been a little affair here ^ver a dispute. I believe your fathe* was engaged in It. Blows were exchanged " "And my dear old governor ," she cries, tightening her hold upon his irra. "Was uninjured. See. there he Is ponder at this moment." says the delighted Joe, pleased because she does not look upon Demosthenes Tanner, [rounded and bleeding. He catches a e;y dose to his ears. Molly is no lonzer utandinc there. Quick as a flash of light she flits across ( the open space. Mynheer Joe hears t hoarse chuckle beside him, and Snows it proceeds from Mr. Grimes. ; His eyes follow the figure of the belie )f Cairo. To his amazement, 6be passes the pugnacious little bantam without a look. What does this mean; 5he is on her knees beside the recovering Western cyclone! Mynheer Joe rroans. He calls himself a fool, a lolt. as the truth flashes upon him ind he realizes that it Is Molly Tnnler's dear old governor whom lie has ?o scientifically knocked out! CHAPTER VII. J?!7WS FROM OVER THE OCEACJ. Mynheer Joe. for once in his life, eels a cold perspiration come out ipou his forehead, which lie nervously vipes away. He wonders is this fear. < i'he man who has braved all manner 5 ?f daugers in the past, faced death in ts most horrible forms, in the poisonnts swamps of Interior Africa, through < he jungles of India, where cobras, ti- ' ;erg and vengeful natives lie in wail; J ueeting the crazed Mohammedan dor- ' .< ishes of the False Prophet face to j' atre in many an assault at Khartoom J i -this man actually trembling with ] car because he dreads the scorn of a i voman! ' He hiuglis at himself for the fancy, ntt it is a nervous lnugb, not at all t tatural. and turning, finds Mr. (Irimes j , urveying him in a comical sort of a , vay. * "Tell me. did yon really think that j | ittle ninooini>oop was Demosthenes j fanner?" asks the silver kiug. in a j ] lalf-eliokod voice, for to him the ' , vhole situation is inexpressibly tunny* , "I certainly did," answers Joe, won- | j lering if it will remedy matters any if j 1 le should pass over and shake the lit- j 1 le terrier until his teeth rattle in his h lead; he has conceived a sudden ha- i red for him. | ( "A terrible mistake, my dear fel- ' < off." grins the other, nodding his lead seriously. "well, ratner, unaer me circum- ( tunees. Tell me who that niun Is." Not that he Is particularly anxious < 0 know, but the question is a natural ; t me. and will help to carry lilui out of |, 1 predicament. j'j "The little man? That's the baron, u me of Miss Molly's uiost devoted ad- ' uirers." ' | "Confusion! How came it that he i | [uarreled with her father, then?" ; | "1 don't know. He must have met j 5 ranuer before, but it may not have en- ; i ored his head that he is her father, tnyhow, the bnrou is used to serfs, < ind Imagines he can run things with j l high hand wherever he goes." I "A Russian?" < "Heaven knows what he isn't?Rus- '] jian, German and Austrian?he bus - served under all their flays. At pros- j i >nt, I have learned, he is under Alex- i lader, and bound for India by stages. |< iiussla has dark designs on the rich |j lossessions of England on the Indian ] )cean, and some day the hosts of the i iVhlte Czar hope to rush over the nountalns and overrun the whole of 1 he empire along the Ganges. We c nay not live to see it, but it will eouie, ts sure as the world moves.'' \ Mr. Grimes talks in this way with . in object in view?he is interested in \ he subject, and at the same time , lopes to divert the mind of his friend . 'rom the awful eontremps iufo which' , le has Btumbled. j In this latter he meets with a fair neasure of success. As a traveler md explorer Joe Miner is Interested ] u the movements of armies on the hessboard of Europe, though his cnowledge of diplomatic entangle- , nents is very sinau compareu wuu ; hat of the ivar correspondent. By this time Tauuer is on his feet. ] ilis late antagonist feels as though lie i vould like to slink out of sight, not hat he is in the least ashamed of the < iart he took in the reeeut engagenent, but because he dreads the inonent when Molly's eyes must fall ( lpon him after her father has pointed >ut the man to whom he owes his ( iownfall. ] He does nothing of the sort, how- i ?ver, but manfully holds lift own. . ley pass on to the hotel without noicing him, whereupon Joe heaves a sigh of relief. Then he takes himself mentally to :ask. Why should he care whether ] his young girl detests him or not? . ?he is nothing to him?can be nothing o him. Her coming across his path ] rns been a mere accident ?a gentle ipple on the broad sea of his plaDS ind existence. Then his mind goes lack?he sees himself struggling In the | raters of the blue Mediterranean. while tn^Rtbeats back to his aldhis arms clasping the fair young git who clings to him so confidingly How often has this picture presente< itself before his mind during days nn< nights of peril, when death howled a the walls of devoted Khnrtoom, am brave Gordon fought back the horde of dervishes again and again. It is useless for Mynheer Joe to de olare that this young girl has no In lluence upon his life. He knows evet while thus endeavoring to deceive him self that there is something back o it all?a hidden power that inunlpu lates the wires?a fate thut control their destinies. Accompanied bv Mr. Grimes hi again reaches the piazza, and seekinj a quiet, retired nook they start in to enjoy their cigars. Mynheer Joe seeki to throw this last disturbing elemen to one side, and being possessed of re markable will power, he manages to do so. concentrating his mind upoi other matters. They chat about several things ii general, and seem to be very comfort able. The explorer, when his cigar li half smoked, takes a glance around and notes that they are quite alone for the piazza at this point is desert cd, the guests having wandered in thj 'direction of the supper room, for th< hotel does nothing by halves. It is to longer utterly dark. Th< remnant of a February moon hai crept up over the horizon, aud lends j penciling of silver to the Egyptiai landscape. It is very romantic, foi the moonlight gleams from many t dome-like mosque aud towering min aret. Mynheer Joe. after noting the fae that they are quite alone, turns to hi! companion and makes a remark thai lias a peculiar Tin?: "This is as good a time and plae< for explanations. Mr. Grimes, as w< can find." The silver king looks at his compan Ion and breathes out rings of smoke. "Explanations? My dear fellow. t< what do you refer?" he asks, but th( repression 00 his face proeluims thai he at least spspects. "There is no nee i of concealmenl between us, Mr. Grimes. You may de coive these good people at the hotel, but I have heard of you, sir." "Oh!" mutters the individual ad ilressed. "Yes." Mynheer Joe goes on quickly, as though his mind is made up; "yoti pass as a silver king at Cairo. Across the w&tcf, Mr. GrlmPS, ydh are known as one of the shrewdest detectives in the country." lie pauses again as if fo let this shol ?0 home. Both puff away at theii cigars, as thougn the action may cleat their brains. It is the explorer who breaks :he silence. "You don't deny the soft impeachmen:, Mr. <jrin.es'.-" he >ay>. with a IJli* lit ?**?\\. "I have n;? it .".son i<?. with you. sir, ill hough I should no: lik^? this subject to become common property." replies the stout man. in a singularly eool tone. "Perhaps 1 cau even guess the object [)f your visit to Egypt in this year ol i-ighty-five." "Make a try at it, now." "You are searching for a certain individual, by name. Joseph Miner." "Bull's-eye. first shot." laughs Mr. Grimes. "Come, how, how in the leuce did you know all this?" "I have been looking ^for a visltoi from across the wrter. Something told me I should find him hi Cairo, i'our especial interest in me caused ine to be doubly watchful. I remember your name through some peculiar incident that happened when last I saw New York, and as a result I unmasked the silver kiug." While he thus speaks Mynheer Joe <hows no sign of unensi ,( ? ". He Ins lot tSe manner of a mail who has any tiling to tear Willi lie 1HIU> mi uim rt )( the law following him. Out* who lias embezzled a great sum of niouoy might show signs of alarui. hut this man evidently has no such burden upon his mind. It is with a far ultf'rnit object in view Mr. Grimes has sought hlna; that Is evldtfct. The l?seudo silver king watches him from ihe corners of his eyes. Now that hia lourney in the burning land of Egypt has reached its fruition he begins to entertain doubts as to its ultimate .uCcess. Mynheer Joe is undoubtedly t man with a determined character, not easily Influenced. Can he offer any inducements whereby the travelei may change his plans and revoke a row made in the past? Whatever se> tret he carries with him, Mr. Grime! hopes it may prove effective. "There is little use, then, in my exrvio ininn nrhv t n m over here." he savs, jjnuumg ? v. ? ? . , laconically. "The same old story?to patch tip a peace between Colonel Carringford, my uncle, and myself. 1 understand. It means much to him that tiiis thing is done. but. although I trust I don't harbor malice, I never vunt to see liis face again." "Nor will you. siv." says the oilier, juiotly. "Ah! Then the colonel Is deadV" "Just so. lie succumbed to his en?my at last." "Peace be to his ashes! I've no ;loubt he kept his word and disinherited me?" with a peculiar inflection o! the voice, as though the subject naturally has some interest for him. "No?and yes!" "Come, that's a singular answer, Mr. Grimes." "It Is on that account 1 am over tmre. Perhaps you remember JacH Austin?" "One of my best friends In the Quaker City." [To be Continued.] Garlic, salt, bread and 6teak are pn! into the cradle of a new-born baby in Holland. } \ i Hs aI inspiration. i J DR. CHAPMAN'S SUNDY SERMON. 3 An Example That Should Encourage IJs to Labor Faithfully in Religious i- Work. New York City.?The following sermon 3 entitled, "A Note ??f Warning." was hrAa/.kn/J ku f kn >.i>ao f or x rx rtc*! t w t 1 ho Wfii' vicatuui uj uic j^iwuw x. * vuv a?v. . Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman. It is to the praise of God that He has in Hi.' word given us repeated instance* of men who nave fallen, that they might serve as x warning and their verv failure be an injpiration to us to avoid sit .ilar mistakes. One can not read the story of Adam and Eve without getting a glimpse both of the power of Satan in his overthrow of our first parents and the tenderness of Grid as He cried out in the cool of the day: "Where art thou?" We can not study the life and character of Noah without being impressed with the fact that a man might he used of God to-day, then tomorrow wander away so far from Him as to make grievous mistakes. The whole of the Old Testament is a cry to those who have wandered away from Cod to return. In their wanderings we get our lessons, and in God's cry we have certain evidence that though we may have sinned, yet He is always ready to put our sins away from Him and from us. One of the best illustrations in the Old Testament, to my mind, is that of Saul. He made a splendid appearance as a king. When the people demanded a king God I sent Samuel to look one out, and he found Saul, whose appearance was kingly. If nothing else recommended him to the throne this did. The first thing Samuel did was to pour the anointing oil upon his head, which was an indication that Cod was taking hiin for His own. and thus separating him from the world. A little later we read that the Spirit of the Lord came upon Saul, and it looks as if he must have been filled with His presence, and must have fulfilled the highest cxpecta! tio:i? of the people. \ lit tic further on in 1 his history the man of God .appears to 1 him. saying: "God is with thee, thou ; mighty niau.'* And we have come to the > conclusion, as we look upon him, that it is indeed true, and when the people cry out 5 for (he king and Saul is called forth, he stands and shoulders above the men . gathered a. out him. and involuntarily the people, when they look upon him. are stirred 10 -noli enthusiasm that thev shout, > "GOD SAVE THE KING.*' ; Aitenvard, when he went to Gibeah. I the re gathered around him "a band of j men whose li:a?*ts God bad touched." ; Thus ihe >s>r> goes on, with Saul rising k evir higher and higher in the popular c?. ! teem and furor. Yet in the end. and in i the face of it all, he blackened the pages ' of the Old Testament, made the ruling of lti.s kingdom a failure, and died by his own hand?really, in the sight of God, a murderer. One cannot read such a sforv as this without trembling, and it is for each one I of us to-day that the Bible wa? written, i that we might know God, and that we might know ourselves. I ] i have learned from this story of Saul, I the king, that it is possible for one to be | born of the Spirit, really to be saved, and j to be saved forever, and vet I MISERABLY FAIL in the sight of God. I remember preaching in one of the cities nf Indiana. For four days the church 1 , v.r.s crowded but a crowd is not an indi<i'.K?:: <>/ :: blessing. Not infrequently the i>-r e?fi ?>. a crowd is an indication of dcHal. for preachers arc apt under such ' ciiviunhtnmes to put their confidence in , num. rather than in Gad. During all the , j four day- not a hand was lifted for prayer, nor a .-ingle indication given that there nii'pn be an awakening on the part of the 1 ( hristiim people. The field I was next to I labor in seemed quite ready for the liarvolU nnd in tfn> nrcnapitorv SPrvicPS IMAilV people were being saved. I called the inip| isters ov the Indiana city together and asked them to give me the privilege of | closing my engagement with them, that < there was some barrier in the way of the | working of God's Spirit, and that I felt ' i when I preached as if I was bound with i chains. After a little conference one of the ministers requested that the decision be withheld for a little, that be felt sure 1 that he knew where the difficulty was. As the leader of our force; of personal work? ers we had one of the members of this minister's church, a man well known throughout his own State, and a judge of one of the highest court's. Somehow it I seemed that when this man passed through I the audience he sent a cold ware over the people. From the conference of ministers the pastor of this church went into the office of this old judge and said to him: "I have b" u hearing rumors on the ! streets for a ' lg time that your life is not | clean, and I nave come to say that if these 1 j rumors are unlrue I desire to take some jfan/l Ttlfr* t*AM frt r>r?n r imH ipf , but I have also come to say that if they are true I will stand nearer to you than a j brother, and help you to get free from the ! power of your Insetting sin." ! The old judge looked a moment at him. 1 and then put Lis head on his arm3 on the : desk a.ul sobbed out: ! "They are all true, and more." | In a moment they were on their knees i in prayer, and it was but a moment more ' before the old judge rose a delivered man, free from the power, of his sin. 1 was justs lifting my hands to pronounce the henediction at the close of an afternoon service when the church door opened and the old judge came in. Having lifted his hand to ask permission to speak he made this statement: "My trier ds, I have been known for years as one of the members of the church and as an officer of the church, but for a long time mj life has been robbed of its power and ray soul of its peace. I have lost my influence in my home, and I fear almost altogether in my city. But I have gotten right with my minister, and right . with God. and I have come to ask your forgiveness." The confession was made with sobs. ? There was no benediction pronounced that afternoon. The people all filed out one wav finnt# fftfil' tVisa KnnH rvf thp inHerp tn say "God bless you,*' some to say nothing, l but to pass with tear-wet cheeks and burn, ing hearts. But when the evening service I came, and the sermon had been preached J ; there was a remarkable change. The at1 , mosphere seemed like heaven. Fully fifty : people pressed their way to the front to I accept Christ as their Saviour. The first man to eonte was the old judge, with his arm around a poor lost man, who was , hopefully saved. In less than six days more than 500 people came pressing their wav into the kingdom. There were several reasons why Saul fell. '? Tn the first place, he was jealous of David; it aroused nil the hatred in his soul , I to see David helmed and honored, while these things had been denied to him. But it i.-. not the end of his sin. ft really seems ! as if jealousy must have been born in , : hell; if one has the seed of it in his naj turc he is somehow compelled by a force he can hardly resist to go deeper into the evil. , In the second place we find Saul destroying the Lord's truest friend. How true it is that when we have committed one sin and failed to make that one right, the rest 1 becomes easy, not infrequently almost a delight. In the third place we find him snaring Agag and the part of his flock. He the king with lying upon his lips! This sin becomes very easv. If we allow the corruption of two days to lie in our souls without cleansed how sad the resultsllfoc^^fcieht to close his eyes at nigh M|^H|^^Bibsolutely made certain thaft^^^^^^^Ks of the day have been wr precious blood of The last we see of Saul ia when he fuMH upon Lis sword and takes his own life?a ~ murderer in the sight of God and in the sight of man. Sin"is awful. In the very beginning of it i you seem to get the hiss of the serpent as he trails through the Garden of Eden. It breaks up home, drags multitude* away from God and down to hell. But the warning cry is given here that ivc must t 4u, IT ? ;; ...? l.? k?. lurea&e cue mikih ^iub h ?l- ?uum nut | overpowered by the greater ones. We must be cleansed from little transgressions if we would not finally be lost. If any one should ask the secret of failure, the reason whv at last the crown should be lost, it could all he summed up in three letters?S-l-X. THEN COMETH THE END. * The day of auards is a great day. It is ( really the judgment seat of Christ, when { we arc to receive the reward of the deeds . done through the body. It is not a time 1 when we are judged for sin, for the sin f Siestion was all settled at the cross for ( osa who accept Jesus Christ. It is not to be confused with the day of judgment spo- ( ken of in the twenty-fifth chapter of Mat- ,! thew; and certainly it is not identical with the great white throne judgment presented ' in the twentieth chapter of Revelation. It ( is simply the day when the Master, before * whom the records of our lives are laid I bare, shall give to us the reward for our faithfulness, or express His estimate of j our faithlessness. ? I can see the Master, with His people gathered before Him. A name is called Htft is familiar, and I see that one stand- v ing before Him with great expectancy. 8 Then the Master speaks?with that voice J; that John tells us sounds like the flow of many waters, that voice that stilled the c tempest tosscu sea, ana causeu Jjazarus iu * break the bonds of death. I hear Him ? speak. The crowns are being lifted up, nnd the first one is the crown of life. I 8 hear Him say: # '"This is given to the one who has done 1 little things well for My glory, or to the n one who has suffered for My sake. You c might have had it, but you failed in your ,, own home. You had no testimony ior your '' own circle of friends. A kind word you might have spoken, but you left it unsaid. The cup of cold water was never given. You might have had the crown of life, but it has been taken by another." j I see llim hold aloft the second crown. "This." He says, "is given to the one who has done hard work for Me. I suffered the pains of Gcthaemane and the v mockings of the crowd, and the stripes of e the Koman ftygellator. and the pains of jhell upon the cross. This crown is for the . one who has endured all things if only My ' cause might have been advanced. But alas! when there eame a time when the n church seemed about to move forward you " opposed it. When thousands of souls n might have been inverted your prejudice ,] against the work of the Holv Gho.st * BLOCKED THE BLESSING. Yon might have had the crown, but another has taken it." * I see Him hold aloft the third crown. 1 resplendent with jewels. All the angels shout aloud: < t "This is the soul-winner's crown." f There has always been joy in the pres- j. I ence of the angels of UoJ over those re- t deemed from sin. ; "You might have had this crown, but T alas! your culture, your intellectual t strength and your social position never c won a sou! for Me. The members of your own household were led into My kingdom f by others. The people in your own store ^ did not know you were Mine." . I remember once holding a series of . meetings in Paris, Illinois. In walking " down the street with one of my assistants ti I heard him talking with a young man, r asking him to he a Christian, but he made g no impression upon him. I .heard him say, j "Your mother wants you to become a k Christian, does she not?" And the young , man began to cry. Then I heard him ask, J "Your father Avants you to become a ? Christian, does he not?" And there was n no answer. But soon I heard him make this statement: "My father is an officer in tl the church and my mother is a leader in f the work of the women's society in the R k.if waitkav r\t t'noni hfttt PVPP SITO 111111111; UUl UVtVUt.1 U4 ?J- ? ken to me about my soul." I believe many a father and mother will n stand before the Judge on the great day of ^ awards and hear the words: "You are crownless. Your children were not saved, or if they were, in their salvation you have had no part. You might _ have had this crown, but another has taken it." I can see Him holding aloft the fourth crown, the crown of glory. I can hear Him (j fucture how one cr.me into the church r rom great depths of sin; how his constitu- . tion had been undermined by the power of an evil life; how he had been saved by c the power of God and cheered by the 1' warm hand clasp and the sympathizing 1: word, and a brother's sympathy to hold <] out to the end. And I can almost hear h Him say: p "Such an one sat beside vou in church and walked with you in the streets, or in the store, or possibly lived with you in a your home, and you said never a word, a Vou let him slip away from fellowship h with Christ and when he wandered you C exclaimed in surprise: 'i expected no v more.'" I can catch the tones of His voice, as He says: "You might have had this crown, but ^ another has taken it." ? I see Him hold aloft the fifth and last crown?the crown of righteousness. I tl hear Him say: c, "Did I not promise that I would come c again? Had not I written it over and over ., again in the hook? Wa9 not line added to I line, statement added to statement, that D in like manner as I went away I should n come back? Were not all the prophecies ji of My coming fulfilled, even to the last de- g tails of Mv life, My suffering and My f] death? Did you not have faith that if one prophecy was fulfilled the others might nave been fulfilled also?" And then that crown, which is to me the most beautiful, the brightest and the . best, is held' aloft for a moment, dazzling ' in its glory, and I hear Him say: ? "You might have had this crown, but d another has taken it." 8 We may miss the five crowns by our un- o faithfulness, yet we may be saved, "so as c by fire." But one thing must be: we must ^ see Him face to face. ? In the city 'of Indianapolis a celebrated Ouaker minister told me of a friend whose 8 cnild had been born blind.' He was I brought to Indianapolis, and this Quaker t! was asked to find a specialist who would d successfullv treat him. Such an one was found. When the operation had been finished he announced that the hoy would certainly see. and sure enough he opened his eyes. His first glance rested upon his j mother, whom he had never known but by * fineet touch. The mother bent down to _ see if she was to be recognized, crying out: " "Oh, my son! ray son!" The bev gazed at his mother, and when t he l-new her. "ried out: a "OH. MOTHER, IS THIS HEAVEN?" c It shall be heaven for us when the scales g shall be taken from our eyes and the veil >> that dims our vision shall be removed, and j we shall see Him face to face. We may miss every crown mentioned in the New c Testament, but we cannot fail to see Him. ^ I do not know if there can be sadness in heaven, but what feeling will it be that will take possession of us when we hear Him say: "You might have had the crown, but T another has taken it?" 8 What feeling will it be that shall possess a us when we hear Him say: q "Well done, good and faithfnl servant. j( enter thou into the joy of thy Lord," and s we shall have the live crowns, and A GLIMPSE OF HIS FACE! * Downward. The man who continues downward only accelerates his own movement and return t becomes more and more difficult.?The . i Rev. j. C. Smith. ^ t , II 5^ERIFE IN SWEDEN Mwut 70,000 Persons Reduced to Eating Pine Bark and Moss. i ' - > LoinriiUnt Will the FiUar* of the Crop* is the Extreme Scarcity of fish ?Relief Me ax err a. London.?Telegrams from Stockholm, Sweden. confirm the distressing ac ounts of flic famine in Northern Sweden. A tout 70.000 persons are afW-ted Ijt the famine, which extends roni the sixty-first to the sixty-seventh legree north latitude and tr<Jta the 7n!f of Bothnia and the Ihwsian borler far into tiie interior. The starving >eop!e are eating pine hark, which is Iried, ground, to powder, mixed with itewed Iceland moss and made into a :ind of famine bread. Coinelden' with the failure of eroos s the extreme scarcity of flRh. The [shcrmen return i'r?>ni tliolr expeditions nipty handed. Even ptarmigan, ustally found in great numbers in the tricken district, have almost eorapletey disappeared. # It is estimated that, the expenditure if about will be necessary o save the population from decimation, rhus far about S200.000 has been subcribed, of which sum qver $12,500 was ent by Swedes in the United States, ["his amount does not include the aoney necessary to save the breed of attle which alone can live through n Arctic winter, or supply seed for he spring sowings. D'SBROW FOUND J[_NOT CUILTY." .awyer Miles S'ayo Suicide Was th* Casie of the Two Deaths. Riverhead. L. L-Louis A. Disbrow vas acquitted of the murder of Clarnoe Foster and was set at liberty. Mstrict Attorney Smith seemed grestly lsappointed. He was asked whether le would try Dlsbrow on the indlctlent charging him with the murder of Dimple" Lawrence, the girl who disippeared with Foster on the night of une 10 last, and whose body was ound with his in Tiana Bay. "S6, I tried the strongest case first," ie said. "It would be n<Mise to try the >awrence indictment." To most of those who attended the riui the verdict was not unexpected, or the prosecution brought out nothng more than had been presented at he preliminary heariflgs, when there ras no direct evidence to connect Dlsirow with the deaths of his two assoiates. Mr. Miles, in summing np for the df? fcnse, attacked the characters of the !ead couple, and advanced the theory hat with their money dwindling they ad committed suicide together. Dlsriet Attorney Smith was frequently ebuked by Justice Maddox for per* onal references which he made to Mr. files and Mr. Ackerly, who assisted a the defense. The ca6e went to the ury at 4.05 o'clock, and It was at 4.50 'clock that the Court House beM slg aieu liiai nicy unci i);rr?u. When the verdict was annoimced ' here was applause. Dtsbrow rushed rorn the Court House to a telephone, d was the first to inform bis mother nd sisters at the family home at Rich- ' loud Hill, in Queens Borough, that he :as free. SENTENCES IN BICCAR CASE. wo Years and a Half Each For Dr. Hobd lie It and Samsel Stanton. Freehold. X. J.?Dr. Charleg C. Henrick. of Bayonne. and former Justice f the Pence Samuel Stanton, of Hooken. tried with Laura Biegar for (inspiring to secure the woman in the ossession of the entire estate of the ite Henry C. Bennett, of Farming ale, were sentenced to two and a ; a If years In, State Prison by Judge [eisley. The Judge declined to look at an ffidavit made by Charles H. Coombs, juror, to the effect that he. Coombs, ad been Influenced by a remark of ounty Detective Strong while they rare delil>eratlng. Judge Heisley aid, however. If a juror had made uch an affidavit. It showed that he ras not possessed of sufficient InteMence to be a juror. In passing sentence the Judge said bat he could not see how the jury ould have arrived at any other conluslon in regard to the prisoners, albough they had taken the responsillity of acquitting Miss Biggar. The len were taken back to the county ail, the Judge saying he would conider later the question of admitting hem to ball pending an appeal. Indicted For SUlla* Cralff. The Grand Jury, at Pittsfleld, Mass.. i the case of Euclid Madden and ameg T. Kelly, has reported an inIctment against each, charging manlaughter. These men weiVln charge f the electric caT which ran into the arriage of President Roosevelt last Lugust, with the result that Secret ervice Agent William Craig, whe was uardlne the President, was killed. loth men, when called to answer to be indictment, pleaded not guilty. A ate for trial was set Bond* of 980,000 Forfeited. The bondsmen of B. D. Greene and ohn F. Gaynor. fugitives from justice or frauds in connection with Improvements of the Savannah Harbor, are reparlng to pay Into the registry of be United States Court $80,000, the mount of the bonds which were eaheated In the United States Court at avannah, Ga. W. B. Kirke.of Syracuse, Y., is Greene's bondsman, and the late ohn D. Leary, of New York City, was n the bond of Gaynor. His executor rill pay. Shot Her Little Brother. The two-year-old son of A. Phillips res fatally shot by his six-year-old ister while playing with a toy gun t their home in Hooper's Island, Del. ["he sister, thinking the gun was not oaded, pointed It at the hoy, exclalmng, "I'll shoot you." The ball pierced he brain. . . Revolution*^ Talk In Cuba. Former members of the revolotioniry army In Cuba threaten to revolt . ind seize every town In Cuba unless hey are paid by March 1.